# Senior Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Spain
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €67.000-€106.000 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. As a technical leader, you will contribute to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, including design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to search functionality, and resolving bugs.

Responsibilities:

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.

- Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance and identify areas for improvement.

- Collaborate with community members on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java.

Requirements:

- Professional experience with search or vector databases, and experience with HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries.

- Solid skills in core Java and familiarity with data structures and concurrency constructs.

- Ability to work autonomously and take on projects from beginning to end.

- Experience with collaborative development and giving/receiving feedback on code.

- Familiarity with multiple data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.

- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code.

Benefits:

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects

- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- search algorithms
- vector databases
- HNSW
- IVF

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- data storage technology
- cross-functional initiatives

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